Woodburner, the flue has a 6" stainless flexible with insulating jacket (thatched).
The liner is over 40 years old and the jacket is f*** me heavy.
The flue is about 25' tall.
The liner has pulled out of the top clamp. I say clamp, but here's a little tale will make you laugh or not...
At some point perhaps three owners ago, guessing in the 80s, the chimney was raised a couple of feet by adding courses of stonework. It was already lined, so it would have needed a new liner.
Instead, what they did is to stick a length of stove pipe into the top of the existing liner. Just stuck it in there, no clamp no worm clip no nothing. And then they flaunched it with the stove pipe sticking out of the top. Looked the part on al old cottage, and no expense spent.
But in the process of raising the stonework, the liner clamp has vanished. So here we have this unsupported liner with its f*** me jacket resting on top of the woodburner with a stove pipe shoved in the top....
Have to laugh
The miracle is that it lasted as long as it did, but the other night it came adrift and things got a bit smoky.
So now I need to pull the liner out and the f*** me heavy jacket and replace it.
I'll be working off a full scaffold, easy peasy.
But the jacket...
Any tips please how to get hold of it, how to lift if, given the top of it is two foot or so down a 9" flue. I'm not Charles Atlas but I do have an electric winch. However, winches only work if you can attach them to the load.
Errrm....?
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The liner is over 40 years old and the jacket is f*** me heavy.
The flue is about 25' tall.
The liner has pulled out of the top clamp. I say clamp, but here's a little tale will make you laugh or not...
At some point perhaps three owners ago, guessing in the 80s, the chimney was raised a couple of feet by adding courses of stonework. It was already lined, so it would have needed a new liner.
Instead, what they did is to stick a length of stove pipe into the top of the existing liner. Just stuck it in there, no clamp no worm clip no nothing. And then they flaunched it with the stove pipe sticking out of the top. Looked the part on al old cottage, and no expense spent.
But in the process of raising the stonework, the liner clamp has vanished. So here we have this unsupported liner with its f*** me jacket resting on top of the woodburner with a stove pipe shoved in the top....
Have to laugh
The miracle is that it lasted as long as it did, but the other night it came adrift and things got a bit smoky.
So now I need to pull the liner out and the f*** me heavy jacket and replace it.
I'll be working off a full scaffold, easy peasy.
But the jacket...
Any tips please how to get hold of it, how to lift if, given the top of it is two foot or so down a 9" flue. I'm not Charles Atlas but I do have an electric winch. However, winches only work if you can attach them to the load.
Errrm....?
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